Starting X Automatically
Abidoon Nadeem
abidoon at hotmail.com
Sun Apr 13 01:29:12 PDT 2003
this starts xterm however i want kde to start up on x
i suppose this would require some additional configuration
please help
Abidoon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Lahaye" <lahaye at users.sourceforge.net>
To: "Abidoon Nadeem" <abidoon at hotmail.com>; <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: Starting X Automatically
>
> Abidoon Nadeem wrote:
> > Linux has run levels
> > in run level 5 X starts automatically
> > what can i do to make X start up all by itself when freebsd boots up !
> > Please reply ASAP !
>
> In /etc/ttys, there's a line for ttyv8; be sure it looks like:
>
> ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
>
>
> BTW: no need for rebooting after this change. Simply do
> as root "kill -HUP 1" (no quotes, of course).
>
> R.
>
>
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